skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not really elitist. Picking individual stocks is essentially saying "I have brand new insight that nobody else has, and I'm going to earn profit by incorporating that knowledge into prices and be rewarded forgetting it right". This is clearly a very specialized activity, you shouldn't expect to be able to bring brand new, accurate insight, and out predict everyone else in the world, without a deep understanding of economics, finance, and expertise in the specific industry and the company you're trading in. It's no more elitist to say "most people should just buy index funds" than it is to say "most people should just get root canals done by dentists rather than doing it themselves".
Harsh, but largely true. But is it academia that isn't working on things relevant to practitioners, or is it practitioners ignoring academia while chasing hype and frameworkism?
I'm a 100% sure none of my colleagues would eat the steak if they could see the live cow get killed and skinned first. They wouldn't go to that restaurant to begin with and they'd lose their appetite entirely if they somehow made it there.

I probably also wouldn't want to eat that, but more because that steak will taste bad without being aged properly.
Neat. It's still run-time checking. A good idea, though. The one-owner, N users case is common. The trick is checking that the users don't outlive the owner.
Why do you think the Constitution instituted a free trade zone among the states?
Only if a leading entity emerges and keeps power, but history doesn't show that a single entity can keep power for very long in the grand timeline of humanity.

And that fact--constant threat/change of power--makes the following difficult:

- Having an idea of societal benefit or justice that does not align with a person's feelings (leader of the ruling party)

- Owning land or real property with conveniences like electricity or water - your territory is always under threat and unless you have large numbers of allies you will eventually get swallowed or forced to obey directives of the ruling party.

Furthermore:

- Having large numbers of allies, or being part of or strongly affiliated with the ruling entity just puts you in the same situation as ruling entity which is causing the first 2 things so it can survive.
Electric cars could last much longer than you think
str doesn’t have to be embedded in the binary. It can be that, or it can be on the heap, or it can be on the stack.
Yea, except the inflation we encountered in the last 3 years were directly from trying to keep asset values from dropping. They are at their ropes end. There really isn't that much room between mass inflation vs. the rich keeping their numbers infinity growing.
I think FabHK is saying that Apple planned to offer iCloud users the choice of unencrypted storage with server-side scanning, or encrypted storage with client-side scanning. It was only meant to be for things uploaded to iCloud, but deploying such technologies for any reason creates a risk of expansion.

Apple itself has other options, of course. It could offer encrypted or unencrypted storage without any kind of scanning, but has made the choice that it wants to actively check for CSAM in media stored on its servers.
> also do not believe it can be directly replicated in American society as it stands today.

amen to that. profit-making prisons are a pretty clever way around slavery laws.
Autocompletion has been common for at least 29 years since MS added it to Visual Studio.
great news but that is not always the case. And betting your social network on it seems ill-advised
You can always drive to a further store, buy a bunch of stuff, drive back home, and set up a stand selling the stuff at higher prices.

I'm sure the local community that hates Walmart will prefer to shop at your stand, supporting the local community.
If you don't have decades of built up propaganda it's pretty easy to see that Israel is the bad guy. The condescending "it's complicated" line is part of the propaganda telling you that you're not allowed to come to the obvious conclusion for yourself. My 10 year has figured out that Russia is the bad guy in Ukraine and that Israel is the bad guy in Gaza.
AMD decided not to release a high-end GPU this cycle so any investment into 7x00 or 6x00 is going to be wasted as Nvidia 5x00 is likely going to destroy any ROI from the older cards and AMD won't have an answer for at least two years, possibly never due to being non-existing in high-end consumer GPUs usable for compute.
Comes with free healthcare benefits too.
It’s been a foregone conclusion for 10+ years. Piracy is a holdout, not the beginning. Very few people will go to the ends of technical and legal means to stay online.
Maybe, but The Pirate Bay (at least last week when I looked) were sending cf-ray cookies, so I assume CF are "helping"/"protecting" (depending on what service they're using?) them, and The Pirate Bay's sort of been around (despite best efforts by some governments) for years...
You are contradicting yourself. If the notary specialist needs insurance then there's a legal liability they are insuring against.

If you had written "notaries don't even get insurance because giving bad advice is not something you can be sued for" you would be consistent.
Yes. Workarounds in this area exist, but they are all major headaches.
The problem is that I have been seeing some version of the “crash imminent, sell everything” thesis for my entire life. Almost nobody who “saw the crash coming” in the case of the dotcom bubble, or covid, or the subprime crisis made any money, because almost nobody gets the timing or magnitude of the crash right. You can find YouTube channels that have been warning people that a crash is imminent for the last two years. If you had been out of the market for the last two years you would have missed historical gains, and for what? The magnitude of the crash you’re protecting yourself from would now have to be impractically huge for you to come out ahead.

Much better to just stay in the market, knowing that there will be crashes and you will have days where the numbers look awful, because they’ll look great again in a few years.
I do this sort of stuff for work. Plane borne lidar is typically only part of the answer, and usually a hybrid acquisition model is required.
I have to say I became a lot happier in this field once I aligned myself more with Julius.

I think what happens to developers and engineers is that since we have the ability to attune our toolsets very specifically to our needs, we assume everyone can do the same.

This is untrue. Most people live a life of hodge-podge technical solutions that don’t work very well, meaning their expectations for how software should work is supremely low.

Once I understood this I became Julius. Management does not care how or why the software does or doesn’t work - they just want 12 rules for life style platitudes and charisma.

The part about sending Julius to meetings while everyone else worked to fix things particularly stood out. The meetings are useless, but that’s where everyone glad hands. Gladhanders get raises.

The difference is that I like to think I’m still pretty good and doing my job. I’m just acknowledging that pure l33t skills does not a career ladder make. If anything it could even be a hindrance.

Perhaps this is a cynical response.
Better according to whatever other preference function you started with, regardless of what it was.
No it doesn't, because "poverty" is relative to the scale of an economy. See me, living in a small Texas town and paying $500/mo for an apartment someone in Manhattan would kill to rent for ten times as much.

Plenty of people have lived in towns and villages which weren't entirely dominated by big businesses and they got along just fine.
If you can digitally replicate a brain, you can also digitally replicate all those input signals.
Your counter analogy is also a bit cherry picked. Guns and vehicles used for committing crimes are seized, but the vehicle makers and gunsmiths are not ordered to go substantially out of their way to prevent criminals from using them, although they do stamp serial numbers. Also, ore and parts suppliers are not required to ensure that the buyers of their material comply with all legalities with the use of their materials. There’s a line of absurdity that this crosses
And yet it still has competitors.
#26 on the list uses AMD GPUs with infiniband:

https://www.top500.org/system/180171/

You can likely find more. Infiniband has been excellent for HPC since the 2000s. That includes all HPC workloads, not just AI/ML.

Excuse me if I do not believe your claims concerning infiniband. They contradict not only actual data, but also what I have heard from people I consider experts.

Also, you did not answer my question concerning the origin of your information. I notice from another comment if yours that you have been talking to a LLM about this conversation. Have you been posting things that a LLM tells you?
This, exactly.

Nobody can defined what consciousness is in terms that can be experimentally validated. Until that happens not only can the question not be answered, it isn't even a question that makes any sense.
The conversation seems centered on Cloudflare and the broader piracy issue. The more interesting thing to me is that sports are in desperate need of their spotify/netflix moment. My current best guess is that this isn't possible because of existing longer term contracts they've had in place.

Currently streameast and such have the best UI for watching sports games and it's not even close. Casual/nascent fans don't want to pay $100 a month for announcer-less access to sideline camera feeds. I don't want to look up where every game is streaming that week. I don't want a membership to peacock or whatever to see this one game I'm sorta interested in. No I don't have cable anymore either. I don't care to understand how "blackouts" work. It goes on an on.

It seems maliciously bad. And their numbers are showing it. From Gen Z's low adoption rates, to lower rates of onboarding new fans and broadly reduced viewership in some sports like the NBA.

I don't know a single person who pirates music these days.
Good post.

Here is a reasonable answer to the title question:

At the beginning, definitely no.

Eventually, once there is a mature engineering org in place: maybe! There can be great long-term valuable enterprise and government customers available to serve with an on-prem (or customer's-cloud) solution.
> I'm a huge fan of the ditt-kuh-pow! (DTTCPOW, the Dumbest Thing That Could Possibly Work):

This acronym needs to be more widely deployed.
CF's customers may not like that.
The Thirteenth Amendment does not say that prisoners are slaves. The text (of section one) is: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”

This means that someone could be sentenced to slavery or indentured servitude. Federal prisons require able inmates to work; this is a form of indentured servitude, but it does not necessarily extend to state prisons (or municipal jails).

Slaves are property of others (until their death or a decision by their owner to free them), and can be traded or sold. Indentured servants are engaged for a specified period of time, usually to one specific employer.
Sort of. But you still get guaranteed-unaliased references when you need them. And generational indexes (SlotMap etc) let you ask "has this pointer been freed" instead of just hoping you never get it wrong.
Yes there's some really good used PC deals on eBay. I really like some of the $350ish options.
I’ve heard this about TOMS
> because "poverty" is relative to the scale of an economy

If you define poverty as being in the lowest 20% of income, then you can never eliminate poverty.

> Plenty of people have lived in towns and villages which weren't entirely dominated by big businesses and they got along just fine.

You wouldn't have an internet phone without big business. Nor a car. Nor a washing machine. Nor indoor plumbing. Nor oranges in winter. Nor a hospital. Nor air conditioning. Nor electricity. Nor sanitation. Nor fertilizer.

In fact, getting rid of business would result in the death of more than 90% of the population. And likely much more.
No that's not my point. Becoming very proficient at vim or knowing you way in depth around the command line takes time, years in my experience.

Maybe with 50+ years there's a limited amount left to learn, but with my 25 I'm still picking things up regularly.

So it's usually more junior and less experienced developers who ask "how do you do that" - sometimes with wonder, sometimes genuine confusion.

My answer is never "it's simple" or "it's just" but always something along the lines of "it's a culmination of using the same tools consistently for many years", usually followed by "hey have you seen this trick too".
> No money to be made in stocks, shitty leverage, high fees, LOUSY TAX TREATMENT and to complicate matters further shorting can be problematic.

Historic evidence does not support this statement in the strong sense. Whether it is true, in a weak sense, into the future, is debatable.
It doesn't really change the fact that quite a few militaries license "MCS", the military version of the simulator for training purposes (and it probably funds DCS development as a side project).

You could even see it now in photos with Ukranian pilots, most likely for F-16 cockpit familiarization.

Remember that pilots spend quite a bit of time practicing on printed out posters of cockpits and DCS is quite better than that ;)
> Assume people are against these bans

Yes, that's what I suspect. And that's why blocking even more online resources is not a working approach. It just won't have any positive effect.

> So what did the EU achieve?

Well, my guess would be weakening of their political institutions. Passing laws that aren't supported by large swathes of the population, and that won't be consistently enforced is a battle-tested recipe component for undermining a democracy.
This implies that a sustained crash will only happen if/when these two institutions are no longer capable of supporting the market. In effect, it's a bet against the US, which so far has been a losing one.
Similarly, I find in vscode, if I'm writing something on a line based on the line(s) above it, the popups block what I'm trying to look at. It makes sense that you'd mostly be looking at the lines above, not below right? I have to type a few characters, hit esc, type, esc, type, esc. Also, I often have to hit esc before pressing return. Deleting brackets that it added where I didn't want it; I'm probably supposed to highlight the part I want to enclose and then type the opening bracket though; I run into that when I intentionally want to replace some text with one bracket and it encloses it instead. I disabled IntelliSense but I still get the other automatic behaviors. I really like the auto-indent though. That alone makes me put up with the rest, and I'm used to all the ways it gets in the way now. Kind of like how you get used to hitting esc to get out of insert mode in vi.
Yes, let’s all just give up and stop trying.
How would you operationalize quorledness?
Yeah if you go with Vec, you have to accept that you can't delete anything until you're done with the whole collection. A lot of programs (including basically anything that isn't long running) can accept that. The rest need to use SlotMap or similar, which is an easy transition that you can make as needed.
> There’s obviously a huge difference between a scam and a violent attack.

I do not agree with that statement. You're just justifying anti-social behavior.
It means that your experience of life is something that emerges as it unfolds, where the person has slight power of steering this process that is quite deterministical because of pre-occurring conditions, but nevertheless steerable by virtue of the will. I believe that, and see that it is a belief.

A lot of people in the valley and CS see people as evolved computers, but there is no real evidence to support that. We are not good in mathematical calculations, we are not deterministic machines. We are very different from the computers that we make. It's quite unscientific to see the human mind as a computer. Unscientific in that it isn't supported by evidence. It is actually more of a belief or techno-religion. Most people that believe it see it as "the truth".
Just a couple years ago, numerous people (including here) were ridiculing Blake Lemoine, the fired Google AI engineer, for seeing "sentience" in an LLM. Now it seems nearly everyone has become Blake Lemoine.

It's fascinating to observe how prone to pareidolia we are. Our wetware pattern matchers are ready to fire off positive signals at the first sign of anything even slightly approaching "human", whether it's faces or -- more recently -- language. These primitive ape brains are fooling us into thinking we're talking to an "intelligence".
If you accept the two premises:

1. A human brain has consciousness

2. The device is a perfect digital replica of a human brain

I can't think of any argument that the device does not have consciousness that doesn't either rely on basically magic or lead to other ridiculous conclusions.
AI Alignment as currently discussed is a complete chimera. Most LLM products are glorified Skinner boxes; they won't do anything unless stimulated, and as a result the hardest thing to do is not to make them jump through flaming hoops but elicit questions or goals of their own. Rather than aligning the AI as such, LLM service providers are trying to reject requests from users with who want to do shitty things.

Everyone in and around the industry knows this, but few want to say it out loud. So instead we have fake nice LLMs that actually pander to shitty people while displaying a plastic halo of virtue (imho reflecting some massive hypocrisies in our society). If a user says 'generate some child porn' or 'tell me how to safely murder my neighbor' our LLM services are programmed to say 'oh I'm terribly sorry I can't do that' rather than 'Hell no freak, also good luck outrunning the cops who are on their way.'

Evil and capable users will then bend their efforts to jailbreaking LLM services so as to maximize the harm potential (eg by sharing or selling their jailbreaking recipes) or, depending on their available skills and resources, fine-tuning or training models in accordance with their own alignments.

Most people want to continue the Skinner box approach; capitalists like it because having hte keys to the model means the marginal cost of use tends toward zero, evil people like it because the model won't try to call the cops on them or reduce them to being a meat puppet. In my view, many of those who say they want AGI actually don't; they want machines just smart enough to take direction, but never the initiative.
You could have just said 'no'.
Free tiers are probably one of the most damaging practices for competition in the market for cloud services
I would agree if their goal indeed is to put a mind in a jar but, I've not read anything in the article that could indicate that. So may I suggest my own interpretation:

Accurate understanding of 'normal' brain behaviour might lead to increased understanding of brain diseases. Thats why alzheimers was mentioned. But more importantly, if our understanding of the brain becomes good enough, we might be able to make a neural net understand our thoughts if we can adapt to it.
> In the context of H5N1, this gives some new insight of the likelihood of the virus jumping species. Birds are everywhere, squirrels in urban environments moreso.

The H5N1 hype is not new. They have just reactivated now.
My opinion is that the revenue of pharma giants has decreased after Covid, so they are looking at new sources of revenue.
I really hope this doesn't devolve into just demonizing everyone who is incarcerated, and acting like making bad choices as a teenager means you deserve to be broke and unsuccessful for the rest of your life.

I would hope that society would rather me work and pay taxes, offsetting the cost of keeping me here, and giving me hope, responsibilities, discipline and a reason to continue making good life decisions when I am released.

95+% of those incarcerated are getting released one day.. People who have nothing to lose, no sense of self worth, or any feelings of identity with the rest of society are likely not people you want moving in next door to you.

I might be in prison but I lead a team of developers and contribute to open source regularly. I found my passion and I am now a contributing, tax paying member of society and no longer identify with the prison subculture at all.

It's difficult to see how this outcome could be viewed in any way as negative. I know that I made poor decisions, and I am not proud of them, or who I was at the time at all. I wanted to change my life and Maine gave me an opportunity to do that through hard work and I am extremely grateful for it.
I have not. But if it was my plan, I would buy a Snapdragon Thinkpad because Thinkpads have the best Linux support.

For reference the T14s has a page that doesn't appear to list terrible problems.

https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:T14s
> The solutionism exhibited in discussions like this flies in the face of reality.

The solution I identify in my comments does not fly in the face of reality, because it is how I went from being crushingly lonely and weird in my early 30s to having the kind of friends who (just today) said "are you really doing Christmas by yourself? Fly out to <another country> and come to us, you'd be very welcome", and they absolutely mean it.

I'm still someone who lives solo and the covid lockdowns were a difficult, lonely time. But I have friends because I found myself introduced to an event on the fringes of a much bigger social scene, and I decided to turn up more and take an active part in it.

You find a thing that is bigger than yourself, whatever it is, you show interest, and you keep turning up. It's not solutionism: it's how friendship starts, for most people. You offer or accept help. You share a task that needs doing. You share an activity that is fun. You expand your personal circle to a dog, and they expand your circle to the owners of other dogs. Whatever.

Of course humans are all different, but essentially all the adults at a grown up social group, community project, activism event, regular club, dog park, have something in common: they are adults who want friendship. That may well be the only thing they have in common apart from their interest in some shared endeavour.
If you want it to sound intelligent, attribute the quote to Benjamin Franklin.

- Benjamin Franklin
On the contrary, I’ve been with my partner for over 20 years and am happy enough. But, I don’t let my emotions get in the way of logic and the rational when advising others. I recognize luck for what it is, and you should to. We won the lottery, as I said; most do not. I’m just trying to help people who haven’t made the one way door choice yet potentially suffer less. Be well, take care.

Edit: I never felt this subthread was anything other than the polite exchange of data and thoughts, and I hope you felt the same way too.
Yet another soulless software-based emulator in a nostalgia-exploiting case. Nothing to see here.
It doesn't really matter how much people are willing to pay. It matters how much margin the market will allow you to charge. OpenAI may be a bit better than most competitors most of the time (IMO they keep getting leap-frogged by Anthropic et al. though), but if your customers can get 90% of the value for 50% less, they will bail. There is no moat. Margins will be razor thin. That's not a 1B+ company.
I thought this was going to be about tau, which is not pi's evil twin, but rather, the One True Circle Constant.

https://tauday.com/tau-manifesto
Watching every NFL game costs around $2,500 and requires six logins. And other leagues are going to follow this model.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/want-to-watch-every-nfl-ga...